Microsoft's Bing team has open-sourced Harrier, an embedding model family that tops the multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark under an MIT license.

Microsoft fixes Windows 11 Start Menu search bug via server-side rollback, no update required for affected users.

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

Bing's new multi-turn search is now global. As you scroll, a Copilot box appears at the bottom so follow-ups build on the last query. Microsoft today rolled out multi-turn search globally in Bing. As ...

Microsoft reported issues with sending and receiving email messages through Outlook, searching in OneDrive and creating chats in Teams. The incident lasted nearly 11 hours. Last summer, Outlook was ...

The most popular trusted model context protocol (MCP) servers on the Web today contain severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The Internet of AI forming all around us is growing larger and more ...

Google upgraded Circle to Search, turning it into a proactive digital safety tool. Users can now circle suspicious messages to receive an AI Overview that analyzes the text for scams. If fraud is ...

The big picture: Mark Russinovich developed Sysmon and other utilities in the Sysinternals suite to provide advanced monitoring and troubleshooting tools for system administrators. Russinovich now ...

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The OpenAI and Microsoft relationship is now locked in long term. Microsoft keeps priority access to OpenAI's newest models for its search and marketing products, OpenAI gets more flexibility to work ...